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I would like to receive push messages for triggered alerts from my vCenter. There is the possibility to execute a command when a alert has been triggered so I decided to write a script which will use Prowl to send push notification to my mobile apple device. I used Prowl already for other devices like my Homematic home automation system. It’s easy to use with an simple curl command. You can find a lot of good examples available by using Google.

I was not quite happy with the statistics from the vCenter. It is not possible to get an overview overall my ESXi servers. :-( Someone pointed me to the tool Graphite that this is a cool solution to visualize such kind of statistics. So I decided to give it a try.

I created and virtual machine running Centos and Graphite as target for my collected statistics. I will post an How to later.

Furthermore I had to create an powershell script which collects the stats of each ESXi in my cluster, transform it a graphite compatible format and transfer it to the graphite server.

After an short weekend with a minimal of sleep … I’m done my Homelab is up and running. Furthermore I have created an template of an nested ESXi (virtualized ESXi). These nested ESXi are perfect for testing of Powershell scripts which I use to initial configure an new ESXi. Next steps which I have planned is to migrate my existing scripts to Powershell 2.0 modules and additionally extend the useability of it. So hopefully it will be possible to enter the IP into an GUI and select per SelectBox different configurations and than just hit configure. :-)